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Raunaq Bhirangi
@raunaqb.bsky.social
Postdoc teaching robots to feel touch at NYU. Check out my fun touch sensors! Fresh from the oven: https://any-skin.github.io The OG: https://reskin.dev
P3-PO is a great example of how simple human priors can facilitate significantly better generalizability for robot policies.
New paper! We show that by using keypoint-based image representation, robot policies become robust to different object types and background changes. We call this method Prescriptive Point Priors for robot Policies or P3-PO in short. Full project is here: point-priors.github.io
BAKU is fully open source and surprisingly effective. We found it easily adaptable for a host of visuotactile tasks in visuoskin.github.io
Learning Precise, Contact-Rich Manipulation through Uncalibrated Tactile Skins
Learning Precise, Contact-Rich Manipulation through Uncalibrated Tactile Skins
visuoskin.github.io
Modern policy architectures are unnecessarily complex. In our #NeurIPS2024 project called BAKU, we focus on what really matters for good policy learning. BAKU is modular, language-conditioned, compatible with multiple sensor streams & action multi-modality, and importantly fully open-source!
Robot utility models are not just among the first learned models that work zero-shot on a mobile manipulator, but also provide a nuanced discussion on what works and what doesn't in data-driven robot learning.
Since we are nearing the end of the year, I'll revisit some of our work I'm most excited about from the last year and maybe a sneak peek of what we are up to next. To start of, Robot Utility Models, which enables zero-shot deployment. In the video below, the robot hasnt seen these doors before.
I'll be presenting AnySkin at the Stanford Center for Design Research today at 2pm! Stop by for a chat and try the sensor out! More info: any-skin.github.io
I just joined bluesky, and would love to connect with folks interested in embodied AI and robotics. I am a postdoctoral researcher at NYU working at the intersection of sensing, machine learning and robotics. Hit me up if you'd like to chat! More about my research: raunaqbhirangi.github.io